Top 150 A.G. Riddle Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Empower them to run their own reports.”

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102. “Good news, Doc: all my internal injuries are psychological.”

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103. “It will decrease the yield.”

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104. “The avatar had advocated a simple existence, living by a shared code. Ares imagined that on those worlds, every citizen was an intellectual and a laborer, and every life was respected. They had it right.”

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105. “Life is hard – for everyone – but it’s hell on earth if you’re foolish or weak.”

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106. “The conspiracy theorists claimed that a Nazi sub left Germany just before the fall of the Third Reich, carrying away the highest ranking Nazis and the entire treasury, including priceless artifacts that had been looted and top-secret technology.”

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107. “Kate wondered what part of the male brain prioritized movie scene storage above all other details in life.”

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108. “I believe that a good book leaves its readers better than they were before.”

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109. “Two lavish marble, glass, and steel staircases shaped like DNA helixes flank the open space.”

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110. “Dorian raced to the edge of the rock cliff and followed the noise with the scope of his rifle. A door. An exit – David’s team had blown it open. Dorian watched that team, which actually numbered six people – none of whom Dorian had ever seen except Kate, crawl up and out.”

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111. “So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.”

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112. “For her, thinking was the greatest enemy of sleep.”

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113. “Our theory was that we exist, because mathematically we must exist in some universe, given that there are infinite possible universes and we are a finite possible outcome.”

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114. “Our brains are like a muscle, Desmond: they become conditioned to the strain they must endure. We are an exceptionally adaptive species. We change to survive in the environment in which we exist.”

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115. “What? Are you crazy –.”

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116. “Because when you’re young, life is about pursuing dreams. I have the rest of my life to take the safe road.”

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117. “Kate almost reeled back. General Ares was Dorian. How? She focused. The man’s face wasn’t Dorian’s, but the overwhelming sense Kate got was that Dorian was inside this man. Or was it the opposite? Was Ares inside Dorian and Kate was sensing that element – seeing it in its purest form now?”

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118. “In fact, the city’s senate had recently passed a law requiring renters to notify their landlord if they were subletting. Still, nearly two-thirds of the twelve thousand apartments for sublet were unregistered and operated illegally.”

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119. “David hadn’t considered that there would be a post-op period. This was the first time a loved one had been operated on by an ancient Atlantean ship. He would have to do a blog post about it afterward – for everyone out there who might go through the same thing. His grin widened.”

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120. “His long blond hair falls around his face, hiding me from his view, and I’m glad for that.”

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121. “It seems I’m involved in a conspiracy that spans space and time and a conflict whose outcome will determine humanity’s fate in two separate universes. I’m never flying again.”

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122. “He had paid for his sins – in all the ways that matter. He was saved, as so many men are, by a good woman. But some lives are harder than others, and some sins haunt us, no matter how much we pay for them or how far we sail from them. Maybe this happened to the man and maybe not. Maybe retirement doesn’t suit the industrious. Perhaps there is no solace in rest for a hard-working man.”

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123. “The word starve is a mistake. The crowd picks it up, and it echoes from person to person in panicky counterpoint until it sounds like the Starve Chorus.”

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124. “He believed that a person’s drop could be the poison or the cure for the ails of the age – that age simply being the thin layer of water on the surface for a brief instant. Milo wasn’t a fighter, a leader, or a genius. He looked around at his companions, seeing all of those qualities. But he could help them. He had a role to play. He was sure of it.”

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125. “Passion, rage – no matter how much we evolve, man can’t escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts.”

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126. “Laws can only take us so far, and they must be based upon something – a shared moral code that rises from something. As that moral foundation recedes, so will society’s values.”

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127. “It strikes me then that it’s our darkest hours and greatest crises that push us to the highest peaks of performance and genius.”

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128. “I pull my sidearm and fire at them from point-blank range, killing the first two men, who must have either thought I was dead or couldn’t see me.”

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129. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in business, it’s that giving a tyrant what he wants doesn’t solve your problem. It only makes it worse.”

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130. “It’s funny: you can imagine committing a vile act, something completely against your moral code, but only when you physically hold the means to take that action does the decision become real. Only then do you learn what you’re capable of – and.”

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131. “What idea?” “I’ll be back.” “Wake me up in an hour,” David called to her as she left. There was no way she would wake him up in an hour. He needed rest. If Kate was right, he would need to be at the very top of his game.”

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132. “Do you know the difference between us and them?” The car came to a stop. The pitter-patter of rain grew louder by the second, making Yuri’s soft voice seem almost far away. “We are awake. We sense the truth: that something is deeply wrong with the world.”

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133. “We know that every human being on the planet is directly descended from one man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago – a person we geneticists call Y-Chromosomal Adam.”

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134. “Kate couldn’t believe it.”

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135. “Viruses didn’t evolve to harm their hosts – in fact they depend on a living host to replicate, and that’s exactly what they do: find a suitable host and live there, replicating benignly, until the host dies of natural causes. These reservoir hosts, as scientists refer to them, essentially carry a virus without any symptoms. For example, ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever; field mice, hantavirus; mosquitoes, West Nile virus, Yellow fever and Dengue fever; pigs and chickens, flu.”

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136. “Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us – and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind.”

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137. “Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us – and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind. From birth, we are educated on countless aspects of life, from personal hygiene to personal finance, but there is no widely accepted curriculum for understanding and managing our minds.”

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138. “If you eliminate all other possibilities, what remains must be the correct answer.”

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139. “In life, negative feedback has one role: as clues to greater success. If one can’t act on negative feedback to improve, the most appropriate action is very simple: nothing.”

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140. “The primary goal is to convince the artifact that we’re intelligent and peaceful.” In my thirty-six years of experience with the human race, I’ve found both points debatable.”

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141. “Nothing makes me worry like someone telling me not to worry.”

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142. “Life isn’t about your limitations. They matter far less than you think. You make a living doing what you’re good at. That’s what’s important – your strengths, not your limitations.”

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143. “There was no single meaning of life – there was only the meaning of your life.”

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144. “Being unafraid was a bad thing. It was deadly. And an evolutionary dead end. Being afraid was good. It conveyed a survival advantage. Selective pressure favored the fearful. Thus, the entire human race became populated with people like all of us – humans with genes that biologically program us to be afraid of eyes watching us.”

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145. “For your first job, don’t pick the one that pays you the most. Or the one where you like the people the most. Pick the one where you can learn the most.”

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146. “That was the key to survival – doing better tomorrow than you did today. Getting up every day and improving.”

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147. “Well, I favor assuming the worst. It’s the only way to be prepared for it. Assuming people are going to do the right thing only sometimes pays off. Being a skeptic always pays off.”

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148. “We need to talk.” In my experience, those four words never herald the opening of a pleasant conversation.”

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149. “Time and life had taught her one thing: you do all you can, and at some point, it’s either enough or it’s not. The tides of a life and your efforts either carry you in. Or sink you.”

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150. “Actually, I think wine-induced soul outpouring is exactly what this world needs right now. Even if it gets awkward. It’s totally worth it.”

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